Common Open Policy Service Protocol Research Articles

P2P IPTV 서비스를 위한 세션 제어 메카니즘

본 논문은 P2P(Peer to Peer) IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) 서비스를 위한 세션 제어 모델을 제시하고, 제시된 모델에 근거한 IPTV 세션 제어 절차에 대해 논한다. 별도의 전용망에 의해 관련 트래픽이 처리되는 공중 IPTV(Public IPTV)와 달리 P2P IPTV 트래픽은 인터넷 접속 트래픽의 일부로 망에 의해 처리되어야 한다. 따라서 P2P IPTV 세션 제어는 IPTV를 구성하는 TPS(Triple Play Service) 트래픽을 기존 인터넷 트래픽과 분리하여 적절하게 제어할 수 있어야 하고, 분리된 TPS 트래픽을 차별화하여 처리하는 QoS(Quality of Service) 제어 기능을 포함해야 한다. 뿐만 아니라 P2P IPTV 세션 제어는 불특정 다수에 의한 비디오 전송을 효과적으로 지원하기 위한 적절한 멀티캐스트 제어 기능을 반드시 포함해야 한다. 본 논문의 P2P IPTV 세션 제어 모델은 상호 연동성(Inter-operability)이 보장되는 P2P IPTV 플랫폼의 조기 구축에 기여할 수 있도록 표준 SIP(Session Initiation Protocol), IGMP(Internet Group Management Protocol), 그리고 COPS(Common Open Policy Service) 프로토콜에 근거하여 설계되었다. This paper proposes a session control model for the P2P(Peer to Peer) IPTV(Internet Protocol Television) services and presents the IPTV session control procedures based on the proposed model. Since, while public IPTV traffic is usually processed via a separate network, P2P IPTV traffic is processed together with the conventional Internet access traffic, the P2P IPTV control mechanism needs to provide multi-stream processing for the constituent TPS(Triple Play Service) traffic and corresponding QoS(Quality of Service) control functions. Besides, P2P IPTV session control mechanism should provide appropriate multicast control functions in order to support effective transmission of video traffic generated by personal IPTV broadcasters. The P2P IPTV session control model proposed in this paper is designed to be based on the standard SIP(Session Initiation Protocol), IGMP(Internet Group Management Protocol), and COPS(Common Open Policy Service) protocol so that it can contribute to the easy and prompt deployment of inter-operable P2P IPTV platform.

COPS-SLS: a service level negotiation protocol for the internet

The deployment of QoS over the Internet may achieve protocols for the negotiation of service levels, as well as mechanisms for the end-to-end realization of service level agreements. Such general-purpose protocols include Common Open Policy Service (COPS) for policy specification within a domain. This article proposes an extension of the COPS protocol for intra- and interdomain service level negotiation. The proposed protocol is known as COPS-SLS. This allows the configuration of domain policies regarding service levels, and the automatic negotiation of service levels within the domain policies.

RATES: a server for MPLS traffic engineering

It has been suggested that one of the most significant reasons for multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) network deployment is network traffic engineering. The goal of traffic engineering is to make the best use of the network infrastructure, and this is facilitates by the explicit routing feature of MPLS, which allows many of the shortcomings associated with current IP routing schemes to be addressed. This article describes a software system called Routing and Traffic Engineering Server (RATES) developed for MPLS traffic engineering. It also describes some new routing ideas incorporated in RATES for MPLS explicit path selection. The RATES implementation consists of a policy and flow database, a browser-based interface for policy definition and entering resource provisioning requests, and a Common Open Policy Service protocol server-client implementation for communicating paths and resource information to edge routers. RATES also uses the OSPF topology database for dynamically obtaining link state information. RATES can set up bandwidth-guaranteed label-switched (LSPs) between specified ingress-egress pairs. The path selection for LSPs is on a new minimum-interference routing algorithm aimed at making the best use of network infrastructure in an online environment where LSP requests arrive one by one with no a priori information about future requests. Although developed for an MPLS application, the RATES implementation has many similarities in components to an intradomain differentiated services bandwidth broker.